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Internet controls such as search boxes have something called "cue prompting" that can help indicate what the user should be entering. Is there some way I can still do something like this?
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Rebecca Riordan continues her examination of paired Listbox controls by adding two additional functions: deferring data updates until users explicitly commit their changes, and restoring the contents of the paired Listbox controls to their initial state.
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Russell Sinclair shows how to summarize data using PivotTables
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Adding an e-mail facility to your Access application is a convenient way to communicate critical data to multiple users, while at the same time producing a trail linked to key records in your database. Keith Bombard shows you how.
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For some applications you just can't get enough screen real-estate, especially when you have fields that display a large amount of text. Mike Toole describes an alternative to the Zoom box that not only looks and works better but avoids the Zoom box's spurious updates. His design can be used for creating any sophisticated custom dialog.
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In this article, Keith Bombard shows off a routine that can reduce the time it takes to create a form to manage your update tables. This general-purpose routine can be used with any small table for editing, updating, adding, and deleting records.
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Doug Steele looks at a common problem in database design: converting from one data classification schema to another. He then moves on to a related question: ensuring that there are no overlapping records in a list of ranges (for example, a list of scheduled events). This results in some thorny SQL, but the results can be used in a wide variety of circumstances.
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This page is updated to show how I transferred from a database to another database (It was actually a SQL back to an Access ACCDB format) using a third database that was linked to both. There was no relationships in the target database so order of transfer wasn't important.
Code is at the bottom of the page.
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Doug Steele helps you understand a few things to do with handling Time values.
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Rebecca Riordan looks at the subject of handling dates. She begins by examining the DateTime data type and the joys of VBA date functions, but the core of this article is how to store values that represent periods in time. As Rebecca points out, much date-like data can't (or at least shouldn't) be stored in traditional DateTime fields.
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